Jean-Pierre Boyer-Bazelais

Jean-Pierre Boyer-Bazelais (24 May 1833-27 October 1883) was a Haitian politician and the founder of the Liberal Party of Haiti, the first political party in the country.

Biography
Jean-Pierre Boyer-Bazelais was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1833, and he served in the army before becoming an aide-de-camp to President Fabre Geffrard. In 1870, he founded the Liberal Party of Haiti, a conservative party composed mostly of mulattoes. He opposed Lysius Solomon's regime, so he led a revolutionary insurrection against him; on 27 March 1883, he landed at Miragoane with Liberals who had been exiled to Cuba and Jamaica, and his followers entered Port-au-Prince. They valiantly fought the government soldiers for six months, and Boyer-Bazelais was killed at Miragoame on 27 October 1883.